Movies from Jake Gyllenhaal

Thor: Ragnarok

Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home-world and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of a powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
Appearing in an interview, alongside Far From Home co-star Jake Gyllenhaal, the pair were quizzed on their favourite Marvel movie. Awkwardly neither of them mentioned either of the Spider-Man films, though most fans wouldn’t argue with their choice. Without a beat, Holland said: “I like Thor: Ragnarok” with Gyllenhaal adding: “I was just about to say that.”
Movies from Jake Gyllenhaal

My Name Is Joe

Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
And I also do love My Name Is Joe – there’s just fucking nothing like it, and the experience of that movie hits me in the heart and the gut in a way no other movie does.
Movies from Jake Gyllenhaal

Secrets & Lies

With both her adoptive parents now dead, a Black optometrist decides to make contact with her birth mother, but is shocked to find out that she is white.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
Secrets & Lies is a great Mike Lee movie I think over time it's watching something that seems so simple. I'm obsessed with the complexity you can fit within something that looks seemingly so simple.
Movies from Jake Gyllenhaal

Point Break

In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
The original Point Break is that is again a time where like they were making movies where the performances are great and the movie is really entertaining. I was and still am a huge Patrick Swayze fan.
Movies from Jake Gyllenhaal

Gleaming the Cube

An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone close to him dies. The cops rule the death a suicide, but the bereaved skater believes he was murdered. It's up to him to solve the case, with a skateboard.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
Gleaming the Cube was a movie I saw a lot yeah. I really love that movie. Christian Slater is hands down sick. I love that movie.
Movies from Jake Gyllenhaal

Out of Sight

Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
I think my favorite like love / sexiness is the scene in Out of Sight. Not only because obviously you have Jennifer Lopez, George Clooney and you know there's great writing and great directing. But I think primarily because the editor is making love with the story at the same time as the actors are actually making love in the in the scene.
Movies from Jake Gyllenhaal

A Separation

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
“Jacques Audiard — I love every single one of his films, most obviously, A Prophet. I love [Asghar Farhadi’s] A Separation.
Movies from Jake Gyllenhaal

A Prophet

Directed by Jacques Audiard. With Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Reda Kateb. A young Arab man is sent to a French prison.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
Jacques Audiard — I love every single one of his films, most obviously, A Prophet.
Movies from Jake Gyllenhaal

Pete's Dragon

Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken in by a kind lighthouse keeper, Nora, and her father, Elliott's prank playing lands them in big trouble. Then, when crooked salesmen try to capture Elliott for their own gain, Pete must attempt a daring rescue.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
I remember watching Pete’s Dragon when I was a kid, and I’d just never know what happens at the end. … It was my favorite movie, I had a Pete’s Dragon shirt, and I still have no idea how that movie ends.
Movies from Jake Gyllenhaal

Adam's Rib

When a woman attempts to kill her uncaring husband, prosecutor Adam Bonner gets the case. Unfortunately for him his wife Amanda (who happens to be a lawyer too) decides to defend the woman in court. Amanda uses everything she can to win the case and Adam gets mad about it. As a result, their perfect marriage is disturbed by everyday quarrels.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
I don’t know if you can say one of them but Adam’s Rib and Woman of the Year, like the Hepburn/Tracy movies. The two of them together will never, ever age. There are scenes in those movies together that could be when you’re watching them today, in this moment. I remember those movies and my mother would always love those movies, and I would watch those movies with her.
Movies from Jake Gyllenhaal

Woman of the Year

Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
I don’t know if you can say one of them but Adam’s Rib and Woman of the Year, like the Hepburn/Tracy movies. The two of them together will never, ever age. There are scenes in those movies together that could be when you’re watching them today, in this moment.
Movies from Jake Gyllenhaal

Lucas

A socially inept fourteen year old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends -- Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love -- fall for each other.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
My first crush was in Goonies too: Kerri Green. She was in Lucas. She was in Summer Rental. OK? Dude, she… Lucas is a very formidable… I had such a crush on her. Oh my god. If you see her in Lucas, you’d understand.
Movies from Jake Gyllenhaal

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high school students growing up in Southern California. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. At the center of the film is Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer who faces-off with the resolute Mr. Hand—a man convinced that everyone is on dope.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
I would actually put Jerry Maguire and Fast Times at Ridgemont High right up there with each other, in the same spot. I know I’m filling up two spots but I know Cameron Crowe wrote Fast Times at Ridgemont High, didn’t he? God, I’m really flying by the seat of my pants here. I just want you to know that, like, I have not really thought about this, so you’re getting some legit unconscious.
Movies from Jake Gyllenhaal

The Goonies

A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of Pirate One-Eyed Willie.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
Goonies, yeah. I mean maybe Goonies is better than Jerry Maguire, though I do love Jerry Maguire. Goonies is just like… I have no words for how awesome Goonies is. I happen to be working with Josh Brolin on this Everest movie I’m about to do, and I still geek out. You know, I want him to wear a headband in the Everest movie because it’s such an amazing character choice.
Movies from Jake Gyllenhaal

Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent—willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients—an egomaniacal football player.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
Another is Jerry Maguire, because inevitably it’s just something I can never turn off whenever it’s on the television, and I think that has a power of its own. I also think that… What is it about that movie? I’m trying to think.
Movies from Jake Gyllenhaal

La Strada

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
The next I would say is La Strada because, well, do I really have to say? I feel like it’s sort of self-explanatory. Like [laughs] Giulietta Masina, I mean every performance, but particularly the last scene in the movie, with Anthony Quinn and just being on the beach, and everything about that movie is beautiful.
Movies from Jake Gyllenhaal

Searching for Bobby Fischer

A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor
The first movie that comes to my mind when somebody asks me about favorites is Searching for Bobby Fischer by Steve Zaillian. First of all, it’s a beautifully, beautifully shot and acted movie. I mean, the screenplay is brilliant, but more than anything, Conrad Hall shot the movie, and it’s one of the best performances I’ve seen by an actor of any age in a movie.